[HAL9000]

Interestingly, the ONLY news agency Mastrianni EVER talks to is Agence France Presse; doing a google search turns him up only in AFP articles.

AFP is apparently embedded with his unit.

And Mastrianni is the same guy who said earlier today that the chemicals at the first site were pesticides.

His comments may depend on the results of the most recent test and the timing of the interview.

[John H K]

This is a completely different location than the earlier one.

For some reason, people seem to be rolling them all together and thinking it's one big chemical site on FR...including this, the barrels near Karbala, the BM-21 rocket warheads, etc.

Yep, AFP has an imbed around him all the time, most likely.

However, when AFP had the article where he said it was pesticides, people began to spin all their usual conspiracy theories about AFP and such.

[Beck_isright]

I don't think there are any frogs imbedded with the US forces. The French are not to be trusted thus knowing my friends in the armed forces, they would never allow it.

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